Railkoad-car seat and couch



WAGNER & DICKINSON.

Car Seat and Couch.

Patnted June 21, 1859.

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AM. PHOTO-LITHO. COJLY, (OSBURNES PRK'ICESS) UNITED STAiEES PAg nNTOFFICE.

F. F. WAGNER AND P. P. DICKINSON, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAILROAD-CAR SEAT AND COUCH.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,511, dated June 21, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, F. F. WAGNER and P. P. DIcKINsoN, both ofHarrisburg, in the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and Improved Car Seat and Couch; and we do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinalsection of one of our seats in an inclined position and partly openedfor a couch, showing also an elevation of part of the adjoining seatarranged as a seat, in a reversed position, and Fig. 2, is a plan or topview of two adjoining seats arranged as in Fig. 1, the seat of the firstone being removed.

Similar letters in both views refer to corresponding parts of ourinvention.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand, use andconstruct our invention we will proceed to describe it.

A, is the seat which rests on two arbors B, B, which have their hearingsin the sides of the frame C, and the seat is secured to the frame bymeans of a catch a, which turns on a pivot b, and which when turnedcrosswise to the seat catches under the cross bars a, as clearlyrepresented in Fig. 1. It is however not essential for our improvementto have the seats so arranged that they can be removed, and they mightjust as well be permanently attached to the frame C.

Rigidly attached to the arbors B and B, are the arms D, and D, and thearms D, are connected by cross bars d, which form the support for acushion E, and in the same.

manner the arms D, are connected by cross bars d, which form the supportfor the cushion E. Additional cushions F, F, are hinged to the cushionsE, and E, in such a manner, that the same can be unfolded and brou ht inthe same plane, or so that the additional cushion F, or F, folds on thetop of the cushion E, or E, to which it is attached. The cushions E, andF, are represented in the former and the cushions E, and F, in thelatter position, and each of the cushions F, and F, is provided withseat.

ears f, and f, which, when the cushions are folded down, fit intocorresponding recesses g, at the sides of the cushions E. Hinged to thearms D, and D, are fiat bars G, the under edge of which is provided withnotches d, which fit over pins 6, which are attached to the armpiece H,and these arms serve to retain the cushions E, and E, in the desiredinclination, as clearly represented in Fig. 1.

I, and I, represent cog wheels which are rigidly attached to the arborsB, and B, and these two cog wheels are connected by an odd number ofsimilar cog wheels J, so that when one of the arms D, is raised theother one D, is depressed, and these wheels are so arranged that thearms D, and D, are parallel to each other under all circumstances. Threewheels J, are represented in our drawings, but any odd number of Wheelswill answer our purpose.

The frames 0,. are rigidly attached to the floor of the car andadditional framings L, are hinged to the legs of the frames C, in such aposition that they form a support for the feet of persons in the nextsucceeding seat.

The operation is as follows :In order to change the seat into a sleepingcouch, the arms D, and D, are inclined as much as is convenient for theperson occupying the seat, and the cushions F, and F, are unfolded inorder to have a convenient support for the legs as well as for the head,and in this position the arms D together with the cushions are retainedby the notched bars G. In day time the seat may be arranged so as toform a convenient resting place for the upper part of the body, in whichcase the arms D, and D, are brought to any desired degree of inclinationand if now the cushion F, only is unfolded as represented in Fig. 1, thehead and the upper part of the body will be in a quite comfortableposition and at the same time the legs rest on the cushion F and thefeet are or may be placed on the footboard L, which is attached to thenext preceding In order to reverse the seat the cushions F, and F, arefolded on the cushions E, and E, and the arms D, and D, are turned untilthey come in a position as represented in both the figures in the seatbars G, as and for the purpose herein shown A, adjoining the seat A. anddescribed.

Having thus described our invention What I F. F. WAGNER. We claim as newand desire to secure by Let- P. P. DICKINSON. 5 ters Patent, is,Witnesses:

The arrangement and combination of the F. TRACE,

wheels I, J, arms D, D, cushions E, E, and G120. H. BELL.

